#sings

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! ↗

— Robert Browning

#could #each #fine #first #lest

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#blessings #call #dad #greatest #mom

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#reading #blessings

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. ↗

— Rumi

#blessings

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#day #exercise #morning-walk #blessings

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#blessings

I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#blessings

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist! ↗

— Russell T. Davies

#the-end-of-time #blessings